Welcome to African Lion Safari! Enjoy a kind of Canada's original safari adventure! Just a click away!
GATE ADMISSIONS
Ticket type May 6-19 May 20-Sept 4 Sept 5-Oct 8
Adult (13+ Years) $42 $49 $42
Child (3-12 Years) $29 $36 $29
Infant (2 & Under) FREE FREE FREE
Accessibility
African Lion Safari is devoted to providing a high level of customer service to all of its visitors, including people with disabilities. The park makes every effort to provide its goods and services in a way that respects the dignity and independence of people with disabilities.
NO PET POLICY
To ensure the health and safety of visitors' pets, our animals, employees and other guests, African Lion Safari does not permit pets of any kind on its property. Visitors who arrive with a pet will have to leave their animal in a shaded center.
VEHICLE RESTRICTION
For the health and safety of our animals, visitors and staff, please ensure you are aware of the vehicles not permitted in our drive through Game Reserves prior to your arrival.
FEEDBACK
The goal of African Lion Safari is to meet and surpass customer expectations. If you have any additional questions on any of the policies outlined in the Park Accessibility Guide, please contact the Main Office at (519) 623-2620 or by email admin@lionsafari.com.
I still remember my friends giving me the advice: Try something new. I was stressed and, of course, also on my phone too much. I was writing about food for work, so cooking didn't really count as a hobby anymore, nor did reading, nor socializing, especially since all of my friends worked in my industry. I needed something in my life that existed apart from all that.
"Maybe something you can do with your hands." The suggestion felt like an escape exit: Maybe a hobby could free me from my work. Cooking had once been the thing I did to relax when I got home from work, the thing I was curious about, and the thing that made my brain away from its standard complaints. The kitchen had once been a release, but now it was part of my professional life. It needed a replacement.
A few months later, I dutifully signed up for a ceramics (制陶艺术) class at a studio near my apartment.
At the studio, I started as a lazy learner, but after a few months I became addicted, signing up for more classes when my term ended. I had a place to go in my free time and something to be curious about, and my goals were unrelated to outer forces: a boss, a job, a market, a reader. Unlike with writing, my progress was quantifiable (可量化的): Now I can make a vase this tall. Now I have made a pot. Now my handles are beautiful. Now I have made two things that more or less look like a pair.
Finally finding a hobby that was just for my own enjoyment was a release. I enjoy having something to do that didn't involve a screen and therefore felt far from the style of work to which I was most accustomed – hands covered in clay cannot swipe (滑屏) very well. Making time for this also means carving out time, for creation and inspiration, and also for the rest that is required for me to reflect on my life. It is something more than a new hobby. This is the peace that everyone needs in our life.
When the winds begin to rise over Bali Island, the sky will be decorated with colors that announce the arrival of kite season.
It's a summer activity that brings back joyful memories of childhood to Balinese photographer Putu Sayoga. As a young boy, he'd watch elder kids pull kites through rice fields near his village after harvest season. When the winds didn't come, the boys would whistle loudly, acting out stories of Rare Angon, the name of a character in Balinese epic story respected by kite flyers. According to the legend, his magical flute beckoned (召唤) the winds. Kites that dance in those sudden strong winds are said to help farmers keep harmful insects away from their harvests.
In the early 1970s, foreign visitors began flooding into Bali's white sand beaches and in 1978 the island launched an annual kite festival that quickly grew into a large competition. Three styles of kite take flight at the festival: the long-tailed bird; the fish, perhaps the most popular; and the leaf, considered the toughest to fly because of earlier preparation.
The COVID-19 pandemic put off the kite festival in Bali Island. But in the absence of tourists, Sayoya rediscovered the beauty of kite flying without earlier preparation. One day, Sayoga spotted a colorful gathering overhead. Down a small side road, he found an illegal festival. The police had forced the kite flyers to leave the beach, so they had to remove to a rice field. Sayoga asked if he could film it and they agreed - so long as he focused his camera on the kites and not their faces.
This year, the official kite festival has returned to Bali's beaches, but informal festivals, like the one Sayoga photographed, have also stuck around again. For Sayoga, who had long avoided the overcrowded pre-pandemic festivals, these gatherings have helped him rediscover the entertainment he loved as a child. Now when he goes to see the kites fly, he may intentionally leave his camera at home.
A heat wave roasted millions of people across the Pacific Northwest, claiming hundreds of lives. Climate change has made heat waves like this one more frequent and intense than those from any other point in recorded history. A study published in the journal Nature Climate Change found global warming responsible for 37 % of heat-related deaths between 1991 and 2018.
The following is what happens if you're one of the next people whom extreme heat kills, according to W. Lawrence Kenney, an expert from Penn State University. First, your brain sends messages to encourage sweat production. Then your heart starts beating faster to pump blood to the skin while blood flow is also directed away from your liver, kidneys, and gut. That's your body attempting to make your skin hotter than the air outside, in hopes of creating a convection (对流) phenomenon that moves heat away from you.
If heat stroke (中暑) occurs, your body might get so hot and redirect so much oxygen-rich blood to the skin that it fails those vital internal organs. Surviving the organ failure that follows might require an emergency transplant. If your body fails to cool you down, its internal temperature might start to climb from a normal level of about 98 degrees Fahrenheit to somewhere closer to 104 degrees. At that temperature, the brain becomes affected and you may feel it start as a headache. Before long, you might not know where you are or what time it is. Left untreated, what follows is a series of organ failure that leads to all but certain death. And that's just part of what we know about how extreme heat kills you.
"It's important for people to understand that there's still a lot we don't know about heat stroke and who's most likely to be harmed," Kenney said. "That's because we can't study it in humans in the laboratory. A lot of what we know comes from studies on animal models, like mice and rats, or from postmortem examinations (尸检) of people who have died of heat stroke."
Everything from essays to exams is threatened by advanced artificial intelligence like ChatGPT, which can produce clear answers to complex questions. Educators are particularly concerned about students turning to AI tools like ChatGPT with their homework. One suggested solution is to make students write exam essays using pen and paper.
To stay competitive through their careers, students need to learn how to use AI writing tools properly to gain output. As professionals working into the 2060s and beyond, they will need to learn how to deal with AI systems effectively.
In addition to the sound reasons for treating ChatGPT as an opportunity and not a threat, there are practical ones. It simply isn't possible to effectively ban this technology. Many students can't help using AI assistance while writing. While there are tools aimed at judging text produced by AI, future versions of AI will get better at emulating (模仿) human writing-including the style of the particular person who is using it.
Some students, who use ChatGPT despite the ban, would avoid being found cheating in their writing, through luck or thanks to careful editing. Worse still, some students would be falsely charged with using ChatGPT, causing great stress and even leading to wrong punishment.
Writing is a skill worthy of great respect. But most students don't have the desire to become professional writers. Instead, they are preparing for careers where they will write to further goals beyond the production of writing. As we do today, they will write to communicate, explain, request and persuade.
A. The ban of ChatGPT would also produce the injustice.
B. There is argument that the use of ChatGPT is good for education.
C. AI writing tools, when properly used, will help them do those things better.
D. Learning to write without AI does indeed promote focused, disciplined thinking.
E. But that' s wrong to ban students from using labor-saving and time-saving AI writing tools.
F. Besides, the AI writing tools will always be one step ahead of the tools to discover AI text.
G. They need to learn to compose well-organized essays using AI-produced text and traditional writing.
Ariel cycled to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in New York last November, planning to go hiking and bird-watching. Suddenly she1a mute swan near the water's edge. Ariel who had worked at the Wild Bird Fund rehab (康复) center knew mute swans can attack people. But as she 2 this one, it didn't move.
She was certain that the bird needed 3 attention. She carefully 4 the swan, and held it in her arms. And then a thought 5 her: What do I do now?
Her best 6 was the rehab center, but that was across the East River and clear on the other side of town. How was she going to 7 a 17-pound swan on her bike all that way? 8, some strangers driving by offered them a lift to a nearby 9 station.
On the subway, unexpectedly, 10 seemed particularly annoyed by the feathered 11 .
Ariel called the rehab center on the way and an animal-care manager met them at the station and drove the bird, the bike, and the 12 to the center.
In the rehab center, staff members 13 that the swan had lead (铅) poisoning, caused by swallowing weights used on fishing lines. Finally they got the swan back up on her 14 . She even made a boyfriend at the center—another 15 swan.
What's the first thing that pops into your mind when you think of wheat straw? Most people would (probable) just see it as a pile of waste in a farmer's field. However, Wu Cui, an intangible cultural inheritor, can turn the straw left over from harvested wheat beautiful functional artworks.
The earliest straw-weaving (草编的) products were discovered at Hemudu Cultural Ruins, a Neolithic cultural site (locate) in Zhejiang province. Straw weaving is method of manufacturing daily items or artworks. It (list) as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2008.
Wu explains the process of straw weaving: selection of materials is the first step of a complicated process that can take weeks, or even (month), to complete. You need to sketch (素描) the piece on paper, requires drawing skills. Next comes weaving, shaping and preserving of the work.
Actually the (hard) part is to make it lifelike.
In her view, straw weaving should respond to (people) needs and preferences, while still drawing inspiration from traditional culture. Wu wants to dig deeper into local traditional culture and create cultural creative products by (develop) the straw-weaving technique.
Michael saw the trouble coming from all the way at the end of the school hallway. There standing by the stairs was Tom, the school bully, who enjoyed taunting (嘲讽) anyone he felt like at any moment. He was tall and strong, so few of the students who were picked on were willing to stand up to him and defend themselves. Michael was one of them.
When they met in the middle of the hallway, Tom walked directly toward Michael, stopped abruptly and snapped at Michael, "Hey, let me see those books!" A group of students watched as Michael held out the books he was carrying, trying not to tremble to show how nervous he was. Tom grabbed a math book, looked inside for a second, and then pushed the book at Michael, who dropped all the books he held. "Hey, those books are school belongings," Tom barked, "so don't let them fall to the floor!" Then he walked away, laughing loudly.
Michael's cheeks turned red. Suddenly a hand appeared beside Michael and picked up a book as it slid away. Michael turned around and saw that it was Ramon, the school's star baseball player. He couldn't believe that Ramon was stopping to help him, as they had hardly spoken to each other.
"Thanks," Michael sighed with relief. "It's so confusing. I don't know what his problem is." Ramon said, "You need to find a way to end this conflict with Tom." Ramon continued, "My grandmother used to tell me whenever I had a problem with someone, 'You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.'"
Looking puzzled, Michael asked what it meant. "It means that being kind to your enemies may be more effective than being angry at them," Ramon explained.
That night, Michael thought about the advice that Ramon had given him. It sounded like a good plan, but deep down Michael wasn't very confident that it would actually work with Tom.
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The next day in school brought Michael's usual trouble.
